The European Commission published a report on the protection of intellectual property rights in the world. China is named the most problematic - priority is assigned to this country 1. Ukraine is in the list of countries with priority 2, which also includes India, Turkey, Indonesia and Russia. In last year’s report, Ukraine was also in this group, reports AIN.

Priority 2 means "

The main problems in Ukraine are theft of content on the Internet and in satellite broadcasting, the lack of an effective system for protecting patents and data in the pharmaceutical business and in the field of plant protection products, problems with the functioning of the collective rights management system, which has a negative impact on the creative industry.

In addition, according to the EUIPO-OECD study "

Online piracy remains a serious problem for our country. The current legislation in this area was called weak in the report.. According to the compilers, because of this, all new sites with stolen content appear in Ukraine.

A similar report is released by the US Trade Representation. Countries identified as major violators in the report may be subject to economic sanctions by the United States. The EU may also turn to economic leverage to influence the situation.